"The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge."

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Ha-Joon Chang

#Foundation Quotes #Acquisition Quotes #Development Quotes

“I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy.”
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.”
“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.”
“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”
“All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.”
“I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldnâ€™t have gone through and couldnâ€™t get back to the place I hadnâ€™t meant to leave.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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